Africana Studies

DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICA

Melissa Wagner- “Comparative Demographic Analysis of the United States and Tanzania”

Marianne Hessel - “HIV/AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa with an Emphasis on Tanzania”

PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICAN SOCIETIES

Kristen Bunner - "The 'Blood Diamond' Industry and Its Impact on Africa's Children" 

Justin  McCulloch - "Origin and Development of Ethiopian Christianity"

Miracle Obeta - "Representations of the African Statesman"

Perspectives on African American Lives

Whitney Tarver - "Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., and the Sources of its' Initiation Rituals"

Candace Allen - "A Critical Analysis of President Bill Clinton's "Memphis speech"

Charles Prince - "Feminist Fatherhood: A New Black Face of Fatherhood in America"

Cherod Johnson - The Unfinished Business of Slavery: The Misrepresentation of African American Men

Panel Discussion

Perspectives on Caribbean African Lives

Gretchen Tressler - (S)Mothering the Caribbean Immigrant: Selvon's The Lonely Londoners 

Elston Carr - Black Nationalism and Racial Formation in the Caribbean Rim of Central America

Contextualizing Obama: The Idea of a Black Man (or Woman) in the White House

Roy Finkenbine - The First African American Presidential Candidate: George Edwin Taylor's 1904 Campaign

Lauren Dreger - Defying the Odds: The 1972 Shirley Chisholm Campaign

Catherine Mingle - Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 Campaigns

Mary Mansour - Lenora Fulani: A Black Presidential Candidate on the Fringe

Michael McGarry - Depictions of a Black President in U.S. Popular Culture

Panel Discussion -  Contextualizing Obama